diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 1b183a96..e87075ee 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -612,6 +612,7 @@ Thomas Sailer <sailer@scs.ch>
 Sven Goethel <sgoethel@jausoft.com>
  for making switching audio channels work without stopping/restarting the DMX
  for fixing initializing the highlight area in cDvbSpuDecoder
+ for suggesting to add cDevice::GetSTC()
 
 Jan Rieger <jan@ricomp.de>
  for suggestions and testing raw keyboard input
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index cb0262c3..b18843a4 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -2452,6 +2452,10 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
 - Added missing 'const' to some cChannel member functions (thanks to Torsten
   Herz).
 
+2003-11-07: Version 1.2.6pre5
+
+- Added cDevice::GetSTC() (suggested by Sven Goethel).
+
 2003-10-24: Version 1.3.0
 
 - Changed thread handling to make it work with NPTL ("Native Posix Thread Library").
diff --git a/PLUGINS.html b/PLUGINS.html
index 913a9914..95ba5d79 100644
--- a/PLUGINS.html
+++ b/PLUGINS.html
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 <center><h1>The VDR Plugin System</h1></center>
 
-<center><b>Version 1.2</b></center>
+<center><b>Version 1.2.6</b></center>
 <p>
 <center>
 Copyright &copy; 2003 Klaus Schmidinger<br>
@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@ Copyright &copy; 2003 Klaus Schmidinger<br>
 <a href="http://www.cadsoft.de/vdr">www.cadsoft.de/vdr</a>
 </center>
 <p>
+<!--X1.1.32--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=#FF0000>&nbsp;</td><td width=100%>
+Important modifications introduced in version 1.2.6 are marked like this.
+<!--X1.1.32--></td></tr></table>
+<p>
 VDR provides an easy to use plugin interface that allows additional functionality
 to be added to the program by implementing a dynamically loadable library file.
 This interface allows programmers to develop additional functionality for VDR completely
@@ -1318,6 +1322,9 @@ The functions to implement replaying capabilites are
 virtual bool HasDecoder(void) const;
 virtual bool CanReplay(void) const;
 virtual bool SetPlayMode(ePlayMode PlayMode);
+<!--X1.1.32--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=#FF0000>&nbsp;</td><td width=100%>
+virtual int64_t GetSTC(void);
+<!--X1.1.32--></td></tr></table>
 virtual void TrickSpeed(int Speed);
 virtual void Clear(void);
 virtual void Play(void);
diff --git a/device.c b/device.c
index 715c7ec1..d1158a7a 100644
--- a/device.c
+++ b/device.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: device.c 1.48 2003/10/18 12:19:39 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: device.c 1.49 2003/11/07 14:15:10 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "device.h"
@@ -500,6 +500,11 @@ bool cDevice::SetPlayMode(ePlayMode PlayMode)
   return false;
 }
 
+int64_t cDevice::GetSTC(void)
+{
+  return -1;
+}
+
 void cDevice::TrickSpeed(int Speed)
 {
 }
diff --git a/device.h b/device.h
index 144adfb6..d73864f2 100644
--- a/device.h
+++ b/device.h
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: device.h 1.34 2003/08/15 13:05:50 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: device.h 1.35 2003/11/07 13:15:45 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #ifndef __DEVICE_H
@@ -320,6 +320,10 @@ protected:
        ///< Sets the device into the given play mode.
        ///< \return true if the operation was successful.
 public:
+  virtual int64_t GetSTC(void);
+       ///< Gets the current System Time Counter, which can be used to
+       ///< synchronize audio and video. If this device is unable to
+       ///< provide the STC, -1 will be returned.
   virtual void TrickSpeed(int Speed);
        ///< Sets the device into a mode where replay is done slower.
        ///< Every single frame shall then be displayed the given number of
diff --git a/dvbdevice.c b/dvbdevice.c
index b6d96b2c..953d2787 100644
--- a/dvbdevice.c
+++ b/dvbdevice.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: dvbdevice.c 1.70 2003/10/24 15:45:15 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: dvbdevice.c 1.71 2003/11/07 14:16:25 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "dvbdevice.h"
@@ -325,6 +325,7 @@ cDvbDevice::cDvbDevice(int n)
   fd_osd      = DvbOpen(DEV_DVB_OSD,    n, O_RDWR);
   fd_video    = DvbOpen(DEV_DVB_VIDEO,  n, O_RDWR | O_NONBLOCK);
   fd_audio    = DvbOpen(DEV_DVB_AUDIO,  n, O_RDWR | O_NONBLOCK);
+  fd_stc      = DvbOpen(DEV_DVB_DEMUX,  n, O_RDWR);
 
   // The DVR device (will be opened and closed as needed):
 
@@ -868,6 +869,20 @@ bool cDvbDevice::SetPlayMode(ePlayMode PlayMode)
   return true;
 }
 
+int64_t cDvbDevice::GetSTC(void)
+{
+  if (fd_stc >= 0) {
+     struct dmx_stc stc;
+     stc.num = 0;
+     if (ioctl(fd_stc, DMX_GET_STC, &stc) == -1) {
+        esyslog("ERROR: stc %d: %m", CardIndex() + 1);
+        return -1;
+        }
+     return stc.stc / stc.base;
+     }
+  return -1;
+}
+
 void cDvbDevice::TrickSpeed(int Speed)
 {
   if (fd_video >= 0)
diff --git a/dvbdevice.h b/dvbdevice.h
index 78df221b..56f1c2b1 100644
--- a/dvbdevice.h
+++ b/dvbdevice.h
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: dvbdevice.h 1.23 2003/10/04 11:54:50 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: dvbdevice.h 1.24 2003/11/07 13:17:13 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #ifndef __DVBDEVICE_H
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ public:
          ///< \return True if any devices are available.
 private:
   fe_type_t frontendType;
-  int fd_osd, fd_audio, fd_video, fd_dvr;
+  int fd_osd, fd_audio, fd_video, fd_dvr, fd_stc;
   int OsdDeviceHandle(void) const { return fd_osd; }
 protected:
   virtual void MakePrimaryDevice(bool On);
@@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ protected:
   virtual bool CanReplay(void) const;
   virtual bool SetPlayMode(ePlayMode PlayMode);
 public:
+  virtual int64_t GetSTC(void);
   virtual void TrickSpeed(int Speed);
   virtual void Clear(void);
   virtual void Play(void);